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1  Nursing does not belong to a man; it is not his province.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  In such moments Anne had no power of saying to herself, "These rooms ought to belong only to us."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
3  This is full of papers belonging to him, to my husband; a small portion only of what I had to look over when I lost him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
4  The gentlemen had their own pursuits, the ladies proceeded on their own business, and they met no more while Anne belonged to them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
5  But here you are in Bath, and the object is to be established here with all the credit and dignity which ought to belong to Sir Walter Elliot.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
6  She gloried in being a sailor's wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
7  In a long strip of meadow land, where there was ample space for all, they were thus divided, forming three distinct parties; and to that party of the three which boasted least animation, and least complaisance, Anne necessarily belonged.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
8  No, these were noises which belonged to the winter pleasures; her spirits rose under their influence; and like Mrs Musgrove, she was feeling, though not saying, that after being long in the country, nothing could be so good for her as a little quiet cheerfulness.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
9  It was now proved that he belonged to the same inn as themselves; and this second meeting, short as it was, also proved again by the gentleman's looks, that he thought hers very lovely, and by the readiness and propriety of his apologies, that he was a man of exceedingly good manners.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
10  It first came into my head," replied Mrs Smith, "upon finding how much you were together, and feeling it to be the most probable thing in the world to be wished for by everybody belonging to either of you; and you may depend upon it that all your acquaintance have disposed of you in the same way.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
11  The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1